swineyard

English

Etymology

From swine +‎ yard.

Noun

swineyard (plural swineyards)

1. A yard for keeping pigs.

   Synonym: pigyard

   Hypernyms: yard < area; place

   Coordinate terms: (yards for livestock) henyard, sheepyard, cowyard, horse-yard; (places for swine) paddock, pasture; hogpen, hogsty, pigpen, pigsty, sty, hoghouse

   • 1865, Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court […] :

     He refers to the old authorities holding that swineyards in cities are nuisances. But they show that swine become nuisances by being shut up, instead of running at large.

Related terms

• barnyard